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1-quality glowworm heating appliance.

2-gas fitter at top of his game(also share holder in the UKs largest flexi importer)

3-electrician comes and spoils it.

dont think a spark was used as it goes straight into a plug socket :D
 
Called to sort out water leaking from loft? Went up there to find CWSC overflowing, so turned off mains and fitted isolation valve, then replaced CWSC valve (and F+E valve). Turned water back on and depressed valves to check everything was ok. Then I got a surprise? On depressing f+e ball valve, water dropped into CWSC. I thought I thought overflow pipe was not properly sealed but on closer inspection, it was actually overflowing into the CWSC? Why did he fit it that way? On looking into the whole thing closer, it turns out it was the f+e valve that had been at fault but as contents was discharging into CWSC, that made it look like fault was from CWSC valve. Madness, utter madness.
 
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You can see f&e just above CWSC and you can clearly see the overflow pipe dropping down into CWSC???
 
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Some epic pipe work on a duo-tec I went to today.

Note the stress cracks in the condensate half way down, bags of water damage behind the kitchen unit below from that, and the usual leaky ntc sensor that had been missed by Scottish power servicing chaps for the last few years.

Flue terminal 65mm from a window, no supports or inspection hatches for 2.5m run in void. Flue not pointed up, inside or out. No fire plate to cover ceiling.

Ball-o-fix and a flexi tap connector for a filling loop. Condensate ran externally in 21.5mm. PRV pipe offset upwards.

Flow and return ran in 22mm for total of 16" before dropping to 15mm for the rest of the 5 bed house.

Installed in 2011 by a company who for some reason chose not to fully complete the benchmark - no sign of a GSR no, can't think why!
 
A clear view from the bottom of the flat.

Well, I'm having difficulty posting picture of view from below? Anyway, when I told this landlord that his boiler needed changing, he got a kitchen fitter to change the boiler, then asked me to come and provide a certificate for the installation? I said NO!!! Two years down the line, Croydon Council have written to him threatening legal action about the discharge on the wall. So I charged him to reroute the condensate to the sink waste pipe. The kitchen fitter had used the overflow outlet (28mm) of cwsc as outlet for condensate which he just shoved in there?? MADNESS
 
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Customer had some fools in to convert a garage to a habitable room, framed and insulated all the walls out, fitted a rad messed all the balancing on the system up, left no room to access the boiler hid the soil pipe and moved the outside tap and told the customer to connect the filling loop to it if she needed the tap

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Not plumbing related but still equally shameful. I do doors from time to time and came across this last night. She had her exs name tattoed on her and when they split she got "sacked" tattoed over the top !!!!


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